Windows 7 Devices and Printers Freezing or Won't Open?

Windows 7 Devices and Printers Freezing or Won't Open?

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[FIXED] – Devices and printers won't open or load! Fixed

Recently I ran into an annoying problem on my Windows 7 virtual machine when I tried to open Devices and Printers from the Start menu.

Instead of loading normally with a list of devices, printers and faxes, it hung and nothing loaded. It was just a blank screen as shown below:

Grrrr. It was working fine a few days ago, so I couldn’t figure out what had changed. When something like this happens, I always think of a few things. Did I install new Windows updates? They’re notorious for messing things up all the time!

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